Okonomiyaki would be like a Japanese pancake if pancakes were made of vegetables and meat, not sweet\u3000but incredibly savory. \u00a0In fact, there is very little to compare the two dishes besides the general shape and the fact that both are truly awesome dishes. Perhaps Japanese Pizza would be more appropriate, except there is no bread\u2026. \u00a0hmm\u2026 Perhaps it is time to treat Okonomiyaki as its own separate category. After all, we don\u2019t compare pancakes to pizza either!<\/p>\n
The name \u201cokonomiyaki\u201d is a combination of the word \u201cokonomi,\u201d meaning \u201cas you like,\u201d and \u201cyaki\u201d which means something grilled or pan-fried. \u00a0The dish originates from the Kansai \/ Osaka area, but its popularity has grown throughout Japan, and at this point, you can basically get it anywhere with many regional spins on the dish. This means that you can get okonomiyaki anywhere in Japan in a dizzying array of highly localized and regional varieties.<\/p>\n
In its most basic form, the original Kansai dish is prepared with batter made of flour, grated yam, water, eggs, shredded cabbage, and often varied with green onion, meat, seafood, vegetables, mochi, and even cheese. \u00a0I once ate \u201cAmerican-yaki\u201d which contained tons of pork and cheese, as well as corn.\u00a0 It sounds odd, but it was pretty good.<\/p>\n
Kansai Style Okonomiyaki Recipes<\/a><\/p>\n One excellent regional variation comes from Hiroshima. Hiroshima-yaki features much more cabbage than in Kansai, and noodles and other ingredients are layered rather than mixed. \u00a0Calling this a delicacy would be inappropriate. \u00a0All okonomiyaki is more like “down home-cookin’,” or “soul food,” and, as such, it lives up to the “as you like” portion of its name.<\/p>\n Ordering in Hiroshima requires choosing between a wide array of toppings and noodles (soba, udon…). \u00a0The most basic version of Hiroshimayaki is soba niku-tama, which consists of cabbage topped with pork, egg, and noodles. But it would be best if you also gave due consideration to seafood, especially Hiroshima’s famous oysters (kaki-iri).<\/p>\n Mitchan S\u014dhonten<\/strong><\/p>\n If you are in the area and fancy the real deal, the home of Hiroshima-yaki is Mitchan S\u014dhonten, generally referred to as “Mitchan.”\u00a0 \u00a0If you make the trip, we suggest ordering “the deluxe!”<\/p>\n Mitchan S\u014dhonten \u65b0\u5929\u5730\u307f\u3063\u3061\u3083\u3093<\/strong><\/p>\n 730-0034 Hiroshima, Naka Ward, Shintenchi, 6\u221212\u00a0(Map link<\/a>) Taisyo<\/a>, CC BY 3.0<\/a>, via Wikimedia Commons<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Okonomiyaki would be like a Japanese pancake if pancakes were made of vegetables and meat, not sweet\u3000but incre […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":4626,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[94,49],"tags":[95,51,210,52,144,223],"class_list":["post-4625","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-food-and-dining","category-hiroshima-2","tag-food","tag-hiroshima-city-2","tag-hiroshima-dining","tag-hiroshima-prefecture-2","tag-japanese-food","tag-kansai"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hrcjapan.com\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4625","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hrcjapan.com\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hrcjapan.com\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hrcjapan.com\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hrcjapan.com\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4625"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hrcjapan.com\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4625\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50149,"href":"https:\/\/hrcjapan.com\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4625\/revisions\/50149"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hrcjapan.com\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4626"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hrcjapan.com\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hrcjapan.com\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hrcjapan.com\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Hiroshima-yaki<\/h2>\n
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